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dc.contributor.authorSeiler, Christianen_US
dc.contributor.authorWohlrabe, Klausen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-14en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-15T17:38:03Z-
dc.date.available2012-02-15T17:38:03Z-
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/55346-
dc.description.abstractIn socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic information RePEc calculates well-known rankings for authors and academic institutions. We provide some cautionary remarks concerning the interpretation of some provided bibliometric measures in RePEc. Moreover, we show how individual and aggregated rankings can be biased due to the employed ranking methodology. In order to select key in-dicators describing and assessing research performance of scientist, we propose to apply principal component analysis in this data-rich environment. This approach allows us to assign weights to each indicator prior to aggregation. We illustrate the approach by providing a new overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCESifo Münchenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCESifo working paper: Empirical and Theoretical Methods 3691en_US
dc.subject.jelA12en_US
dc.subject.jelA14en_US
dc.subject.ddc330en_US
dc.subject.keywordRePEcen_US
dc.subject.keywordranking aggregationen_US
dc.subject.keywordprincipal components analysisen_US
dc.subject.keywordeconomics professionen_US
dc.subject.stwÖkonomenen_US
dc.subject.stwInternet-Portalen_US
dc.subject.stwBewertungen_US
dc.subject.stwRanking-Verfahrenen_US
dc.subject.stwHauptkomponentenanalyseen_US
dc.subject.stwWelten_US
dc.titleRanking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc dataen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.identifier.ppn685221067en_US
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen_US
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